Episode 9.2: Charta

 

Tiberius digitum in lītus posuit, et lentē movit. "hīc nāvis ex marī venit," inquit. "hic portus Alexandrīa est, urbs magna. deinde nāvis parva flūmen ascendit, multōs diēs, prope agrōs et vīcōs. et hīc, ubi flūmen sē flectit, pȳramidēs stant."

 

nunc Recentiī viam vidēbant: ā marī ad Alexandrīam, ab Alexandrīā prope flūmen, ā flūmine ad pȳramidēs. erat etiam via altera per terram, sed longior et dūrior.

 

"ego hanc viam nōvī," inquit Tiberius. "nōvī lītora, nōvī ventōs. Aegyptus longē abest, et maior est quam Britannia. sed nunc nōn sōlum locum scīmus, sed etiam viam."

 

Recentiī chartam diū spectābant. iam Aegyptum sciēbant, et viam ad pȳramidēs: nōn fābulam, sed viam vēram, quam nāvis vēra facere poterat.

 

interim volūmen Salviī in tablīnō manēbat, intāctum. verba eius numquam lēgērunt; hanc viam ēlēgērunt, nōn illam.

 


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